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3_16_2.jpg (62806 bytes) C. Delbert Cecil - 418th TG on "YANKEE GIRL" - 48256 LD-R. Delbert was a member of the Victor J. Fraley Crew    Detailed Information   (100th Photo Archives)
3_17_1.jpg (59232 bytes) James C. Johnson - 418th ROG. He was a member of the Victor J. Fraley Crew   Detailed Information    (100th Photo Archives)
3_17_2.jpg (58801 bytes) George D. Sharpe crew with Richard J. White (from the Victor J. Fraley crew), photo taken after a "Chowhound" mission on 5 May 1945.   Detailed Information    (100th Photo Archives)
3_18_1.jpg (22039 bytes) This aircraft was originally from the 351st but was transferred to the 418th late in the war.    (100th Photo Archives)
3_18_2.jpg (29183 bytes) 48790 - LD-V -418th. Crashed at Diss 12 May 1945 - The Wade Pratt Crew. Detailed Information    (100th Photo Archives)
3_19_1.jpg (49313 bytes) R. Piuner TTE and M. Lynch ROG - The two airmen are from the 349th    (100th Photo Archives)
3_19_2.jpg (34322 bytes) "GOLD BRICK"  237972 - This is a 349th aircraft, shown here with major damage to her horizontal stabilizer    (100th Photo Archives)
3_20_1.jpg (41164 bytes) One of the bomb shelters at Thorpe Abbotts. Mostly ground crew on break. Note the small English lads standing against the building. Inconceivable as it may seem in our age civilians lived near and sometimes on the base. The natural love of children of the Americans was never more obvious than during WWII. They shared their food with them and lavished gifts for them at Christmas and other holidays. Sam Hurry who lived just at the edge of the base recalled the day the 100th went home in 1945 as one of the saddest days in his life.    (100th Photo Archives)
3_20_2.jpg (18896 bytes) Returning from a mission    (100th Photo Archives)
3_21_1.jpg (26116 bytes) B-17s of several groups on the flight line at Thorpe Abbotts after VE-Day. 48183 in the foreground is from the 418th.    (100th Photo Archives)
3_21_2.jpg (40425 bytes) Scene from the base at Thorpe Abbotts    (100th Photo Archives)
3_22_1.jpg (12830 bytes) Landing on runway 28, barely visible in the background are other aircraft in the landing cycle.    (100th Photo Archives)
3_22_3.jpg (36645 bytes) "BLIVIT'S"  ground crew    (100th Photo Archives)
3_23_2.jpg (24014 bytes) Formation Time     (100th Photo Archives)
3_23_3.jpg (23564 bytes) Formation Time     (100th Photo Archives)
3_23_4.jpg (19060 bytes) Rolling out on runway 10 - Thorpe Abbotts    (100th Photo Archives)
3_24_1.jpg (28080 bytes) John Brady - Regensburg Mission - Photo from Bob Wolff's "WOLF PACK"   (100th Photo Archives)
3_24_2.jpg (27462 bytes) the 100th over the Alps after bombing Regensburg 17 Aug 1943. Observe the "loose" formation, a sure sign no fighters are in the area.    (100th Photo Archives)
clarkgable.jpg (82819 bytes) Capt. Clark Gable being decorated by Gen. "Hap" Arnold.  Tommy L. Gribble of the Thomas J.  Reilly's crew was Gable's gunnery instructor.  Detailed Information    (100th Photo Archives)
stivers.jpg (38736 bytes) R. W. Stivers, 418th command pilot and air exec.  Detailed Information    (100th Photo Archives)
wolfpack.jpg (29617 bytes) "WOLF PACK" after it landed in Africa on the Regensburg mission 17 Aug 1943. It's crew, Robert Wolff.  Detailed Information    (100th Photo Archives)
wooten.jpg (63887 bytes) E. D. Wooten, 418th command pilot   Detailed Information    (100th Photo Archives)
3_25_1.jpg (30806 bytes) John Brady Crew in North Africa, Brady is second from left in the middle row. He was a professional musician in civilian life. Brady was one of four 100th Veterans so honored to lay the 100th's Wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns in 1995. John sadly was on the early 2000 Taps List.  Detailed Information    (100th Photo Archives)
3_25_2.jpg (18830 bytes) "Formation Time"    (100th Photo Archives)
3_25_3.jpg (19973 bytes) Takeoff - Early morning mission departure from Thorpe Abbotts    (100th Photo Archives)
3_25_4.jpg (18268 bytes) Gear coming up - this is another shot of the aircraft in the proceeding photograph starting takeoff roll.    (100th Photo Archives)
3_26_1.jpg (15547 bytes) Formation Time - Here the 100th is tucked in tight, either enemy fighters in the area or on the bomb run.    (100th Photo Archives)
3_26_2.jpg (51298 bytes) Crewman pointing out where 88 mm had passed through the #1 engine mount, barley missing the fuel tanks and knocking out the engine.  (100th Photo Archives)
3_26_4.jpg (28561 bytes) Thorpe Abbotts scene    (100th Photo Archives)
3_27_1.jpg (38360 bytes) The two left most airmen are unknown, extreme right is Joe Keenan BTG on the William A. Ryan, Jr.  Crew    Detailed Information   (100th Photo Archives)
3_27_2.jpg (46607 bytes) Gun position in the Radio Room. This gun position was removed in 1944, it being determined the field of fire was too small to justify the addition weight.    (100th Photo Archives)
3_28_1.jpg (26472 bytes) Photograph identified as, William Groenendaal, Peal, Roach and Burns, April 1944.    (100th Photo Archives)
3_28_2.jpg (24851 bytes) Unidentified photograph . Most likely the airmen is the Crew Chief of this early model Fortress    (100th Photo Archives)
3_29_1.jpg (27376 bytes) 297090 LD-D 418th aircraft collides with the Pryo storage shed at Framlingham, home of the 390th 10 Jul 1944. This was during the time Thorpe Abbotts was paving taxiway and the 100th operated out of Framlingham during this short period.     (100th Photo Archives)